Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa . |
| 2 | They insisted it never happened . |
| 3 | Was her decision to play music on a full-time basis thought out — or did she just happen into it ? |
| 4 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 5 | Did it really happen ? |
| 6 | Did it really happen ? |
| 7 | It belonged to a huge and beautiful seal who said she just happened to have been drawn that way . |
| 8 | Had they never happened , you would never have become the person you are today . |
| 9 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 10 | Nick and I never saw that , but people said it often happened . |
| 11 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |